The Organization has 54 field offices around the world. Its headquarters are located in Paris, France.

Its mission is to contribute to the building of peace, the eradication of poverty, sustainable development and intercultural dialogue through education, the sciences, culture, communication and information.

The Organization focuses, in particular, on two global priorities, Africa and Gender equality, and supports the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted at the 70th session of the United Nations General Assembly, through all its programmes.

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According to the UNESCO Institute for Statistics , more than half of all scientists in Thailand are women — an impressive level of gender equality in the traditionally male-dominated science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields. And yet...

Representatives from freedom of expression NGOs, media and Facebook to join UNESCO, the Southeast Asian Press Alliance and the Embassy of Sweden for debate on critical issue in region’s media scene at Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Thailand Southeast Asia...

Apps aimed at recycling domestic waste, reporting water pollution in Viet Nam and connecting farmers to valuable agricultural information were the winners at the recent UNESCO Open Data and Science Hackathon at the FOSSASIA Summit Some 92 participants from...

Theme: ‘Time is now: rural and urban activists transforming women’s lives’ Deadline: 25 March 2018 Open to: Journalists, reporters, journalism school students from Lao PDR ພາສາລາວ On the occasion of International Women’s Day 2018, UNESCO Bangkok is...

BBC reporter Nanchanok Wongsamuth says that she did not give gender balance in her stories much thought until an editor approached her about the lack of women sources in a story she was working on. “That made me realize I wasn’t representing female voices...